Improvement in horse hat-forks



anni @Wina LEVER-ETT W. STUART, 0F NARBO'WSBU'RG, NEW YORK.

Leners Patent Na 106,230', ma Augen 9. 1870.

iMPRovnMENT fnv HORSE yHAYJ'oRKs The Schedule referred to in theseLetters Patent and making part of the ame.`

To all whom it -nuty concern:

Be it known that I, LEVERETT W. STUART, of Narrows'burg, in the county of Sullivan and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in vCombined Hay-Fork and Knife; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in an implement for handling and cutting hay,

it being aeombined hay-fork and bay-knife, and consist-s in the construction, arranggment, and combination,.of parts hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a side view and Figure 2 is an edge'vi'ew of the combined hay-fork and hay-cutter.

Similar lettels of reference indicate corresponding parts.

g Thisimplementconsists of amain supporting-bar, A, two cutting-forks, B and C, attached by rivets or screws on the opposite sides of the bar, and connected with a double tripping-lever, D, (which has its fulcrum in the ba/r A,) at the point E, by the connecting-rods F and G, one of whiclnrods, in fig. is seen in dotted lines.

The implement issuspended from' the loop H, by means of a rope, as seen in the drawing. I is a cord, by means of which the lever D is tripped. This cord passes up over the pulley J, and-.is attached to the end of the'dog K. l

L is a spring catch, attached to the main bar A. l In using the implement forraising i hay, the forks B G (closed together, as seen inv dotted 1ines,) arethrnst into the hay. -I lielever D is forced, from the position seen in dotted lines, down, so that the catch L engages with the stud Ni'in the 'lever D. This movement spreads the forks beneath the-hay, as seen in the drawing.

The catch I holds the lever down, so that the Whole apparatus may be raised and the hay elevated to any desired height. 1

When the hay is inthe right position for dumping,-

ajerk upon the cord I causes the end O of the dog K to strike the-end P of the catch L, and forcethe catch from the stud N. When this is done, the forks drop intothe position seen in dotted lines,and, of course, the hay slips ofi'.

The outer edges R S of the forks are made sharp, so that they will cut when they are in the position seen in vdotted lines, and thrust down in-tothe hay.

When the forks ar'e extended, as'forraising hay, they are supported by the rods F Gr, attached to the forks, as seen in the drawing.

Uis the pivot for the fork B, and I V the pivot for G. By this arrangement, it will be seen, that t-heends -of the fork cross eachother on opposite sides of the main' bar A.

This is a most durable and effective implement for either raising orcutting hay, audits advantages lwill be readily understood by all.

' Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The tripping device, composed of the dog K, spring catch L, and stud N, arranged and operating substan v tially as and for the purposes described, in corrbina-A tion with thevlever E, and connecting-rod or rods, and the cutting-forks B .0.

` 'LEVERE'DT W. STUART. Witnesses:

' JOHN J. OoRWIN,

WILLIAM EATON'.` 

